Noble Brutes

Noble Brutes
Author: Donna Landry
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 0801890284

This radical reinterpretation of Ottoman and Arab influences on horsemanship and breeding sheds new light on English national identity, as illustrated in such classic works as Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and George Stubbs's portrait of Whistlejacket.